"Plus me plaît le séjour qu'ont bâti mes aïeux, Que des palais Romains le front audacieux, Plus que le marbre dur me plaît l'ardoise fine:Plus mon Loir gaulois, que le Tibre latin, Plus mon petit Liré, que le mont Palatin, Et plus que l'air marin la doulceur angevine."
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Albert G. Latham, The Oxford Treasury of French Literature (1915), p. 187: "The soft climate of Anjou."
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Anjou
is an historical region in inland north-western France, straddling the lower Loire. Its capital was . The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called Angevins or, more rarely, Angeriens.
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